Old Testament/
Psalms

Prayer changes us. We cannot hope to love and serve God properly merely by reading His Word and fellowshiping with others, although these exercises do benefit us and our relationship to the Lord. In addition to such things, we must ...Read More

True love for God’s law is not legalism (adding to God’s rules or demanding that we obey the civil and ceremonial laws fulfilled in Christ). Love for the law makes us try to follow it truly without imposing ...Read More

As Christians, we are privileged to be under the eternal mercy and grace of God, not His wrath. Like those who never repent, we do not deserve to escape His wrath, for we have nothing in ourselves to make us ...Read More

Our God is a God of order, so it is no surprise that the music we use to praise Him would reflect some kind of structure. We are not always conscious of the ordering principles in the art that we ...Read More

Dr. R.C. Sproul has often said that we must first understand the bad news if we
are going to know the good news of the gospel. There is bad news for all the
natural-born sons and daughters of Adam ...Read More

We will continue to sin until we are in the direct presence of God, so there will
always be occasions when we disbelieve the Lord and transgress His law. Our
need for perfection has been met in Christ, and He ...Read More

Considered in and of itself, death is not a good thing. It is only here because
of the fall. Yet considered in the broader context of the Christian life, death
can be viewed as a positive change. After all, when ...Read More

Fundamentally, Christ saves us from the penalty and power of sin. Yet His
deliverance does not stop there. Our Savior also delights to make all things
new, empowering us to mend fences with others, bring joy where there was
once ...Read More

Every believer should be looking forward with excited anticipation to the day of final judgment. On that day, we will be vindicated as the people of God and revealed as those who have been clothed in the righteousness of
Christ ...Read More

We can do nothing to merit eternal life, but it does not follow that we can do
nothing to experience more of God’s favor once we have been ingrafted into
the body of Christ through faith alone. Obedience to ...Read More

We are accustomed to identifying our enemies solely as those who hate us
here on earth and whose opposition is easy to see and experience. Yet we
should never forget that we come into this world at enmity with God ...Read More

Those people upon whom God shines the light of His glory, kindness, and love cannot help but reflect this light to those around them. Over time, as we grow in the grace and truth of Christ Jesus, we will shine ...Read More

Many well-intentioned people promise that coming to Jesus, the Great
Shepherd of the sheep, will solve all of life’s problems. While one day this will
be true, we will face the enemies of the world, the flesh, and the ...Read More

Because God’s kingdom is everlasting, we can be confident that He will
overcome all of His and our enemies. No foe can outlast Him, and nothing
will ever cause His throne to fall. We should therefore be unafraid that ...Read More

One of the most valuable spiritual exercises that we can engage in is to
meditate on a few of the analogical descriptions of the Lord in Scripture.
Taking terms such as rock or shepherd, we can consider how God is ...Read More